Post by Doose of the Pink Panties on Dec 21, 2005 22:55:06 GMT -5
So my favorite Christmas cookies from my childhood are spritz cookies. AKA teh hardest cookies in teh WORLD to make. So I made them Monday night. If anybody's curious, here's how you make them.
1 1/2 cups of butter/margarine (that's 3 sticks!)
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder (not teh same as baking soda!)
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
3 1/2 cups of all purpose flour
1. Curb your swearing once you realize that 1 1/2 cups is 3 freaking sticks of butter!
2. Soften teh butter (teh cookbook neglected to mention this part, but it's important)
3. Beat butter with an electric mixer on medium to high speed 30 seconds.
4. Add sugar and baking powder. Beat till combined, while scraping. (this is easier said than done if you're using a handmixer like I was)
5. Beat in egg, vanilla, and almond extract until combined.
6. Add flour slowly and beat.
7. Resist urge to panic as flour and dough do not mix.
8. Continue adding flour and beating.
9. Succumb to teh panic.
10. Stir in remaining flour. (that's what teh cookbook says to do)
11. Break your favorite spoon.
12. Realize far too late that when you made teh cookies last year you were using your mom's KitchenAid mixer.
13. Lament that you no longer make teh money you did when you gave your mom that mixer for Christmas years ago.
14. Become very sad.
15. Start drinking.
16. Try stirring it with another spoon.
17. Realize teh futility of it all.
18. Try not to weep.
19. Fail, and weep.
20. Start kneading teh dough like it's bread dough.
21. Become elated once you realize it's actually working.
22. Continue drinking.
23. Force unchilled dough through a cookie press onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
24. Thank teh Great Spaghetti Monster that you have Popeye like forearms cuz that's teh only way you're getting that dough to come outta teh cookie press.
24a.Don't have popeye arms? Try to squeeze teh handle on teh cookie press anyway, but don't be surprised when your trees look like leaves... or blobs.
25. Bake in a 375 degree oven for 8-10 minutes.
26. After teh 3rd cookie sheet realize that you didn't mix green food coloring into teh dough.
27. Realize you don't have any green food coloring OR green sugar.
28. Transfer cookies to wire rack to cool.
29. Write excessively long post about teh experience.
30. Eat teh cookies.
1 1/2 cups of butter/margarine (that's 3 sticks!)
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder (not teh same as baking soda!)
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
3 1/2 cups of all purpose flour
1. Curb your swearing once you realize that 1 1/2 cups is 3 freaking sticks of butter!
2. Soften teh butter (teh cookbook neglected to mention this part, but it's important)
3. Beat butter with an electric mixer on medium to high speed 30 seconds.
4. Add sugar and baking powder. Beat till combined, while scraping. (this is easier said than done if you're using a handmixer like I was)
5. Beat in egg, vanilla, and almond extract until combined.
6. Add flour slowly and beat.
7. Resist urge to panic as flour and dough do not mix.
8. Continue adding flour and beating.
9. Succumb to teh panic.
10. Stir in remaining flour. (that's what teh cookbook says to do)
11. Break your favorite spoon.
12. Realize far too late that when you made teh cookies last year you were using your mom's KitchenAid mixer.
13. Lament that you no longer make teh money you did when you gave your mom that mixer for Christmas years ago.
14. Become very sad.
15. Start drinking.
16. Try stirring it with another spoon.
17. Realize teh futility of it all.
18. Try not to weep.
19. Fail, and weep.
20. Start kneading teh dough like it's bread dough.
21. Become elated once you realize it's actually working.
22. Continue drinking.
23. Force unchilled dough through a cookie press onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
24. Thank teh Great Spaghetti Monster that you have Popeye like forearms cuz that's teh only way you're getting that dough to come outta teh cookie press.
24a.Don't have popeye arms? Try to squeeze teh handle on teh cookie press anyway, but don't be surprised when your trees look like leaves... or blobs.
25. Bake in a 375 degree oven for 8-10 minutes.
26. After teh 3rd cookie sheet realize that you didn't mix green food coloring into teh dough.
27. Realize you don't have any green food coloring OR green sugar.
28. Transfer cookies to wire rack to cool.
29. Write excessively long post about teh experience.
30. Eat teh cookies.